The committee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), predicted Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that the committee would complete its task. "We're going to get the bill out tomorrow," he said. "We may have to work very, very late into the night, but we will."

Specter backs comprehensive legislation that includes enforcement measures, a guest-worker plan and a provision allowing the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already here to remain legally.

The committee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), predicted Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that the committee would complete its task. "We're going to get the bill out tomorrow," he said. "We may have to work very, very late into the night, but we will."

Specter backs comprehensive legislation that includes enforcement measures, a guest-worker plan and a provision allowing the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already here to remain legally.

I love this sense of entitlement in illegals!!! You came here because you wanted a higher paying job than you could get in your own country, to pursue your shot at the American dream (not the Mexican, French, Ivory Coast, Russian dream the AMERICAN dream), etc. No one said if you come we will give you a green card. Coming here was a **** shoot and when you gamble sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Own up to the consequences of your actions and accept that NOTHING was promised to you when you made the decision to come here and NOTHING is owed to you for having lived here illegally for many years. Under your logic if I go and play slot machines in Vegas for 10 years the casinos OWE me a big payout because I have been a contributor for 10 years. Stop making this a racial thing it's not. Touger restrictions in a post-9/11 world makes sense. Like it or not, terrorists took advantage of the lax security protocols from federal, state and local officials. From standardizing id's, nationwide,hefty fines for employers, eliminating access to social programs, felony criminal penalties, etc. these types of actions are designed to make it more difficult for terrorists to operate in this country and if they succeed for even ONE terrorist they have accomplished their mission as far as I'm concerned.

Bronzelady, please zip your big filthy KKK mouth because you abviously dont know anything...You're not smart enought to comprehend that undocumented immigrants are part of the workforce..You're no smart enought to understand that rounding up 11 millions people is uncivilize and evil and that is why every religious faith groups in the U.S denounces such laws...you need to understand that enforcement-only, can not work, but if you enforce whyle providing some legal channels that would prevent migrants from coming here illegally, then we will not have so many illegal entrants into the U.S

Your real goal is to stop all immigrations, not illegal entrants...This is why you oppose any guest worker permit even if it was attached to a very strict enforcement bill.

Whether you like it or no, america will stay a welcoming country to immigrants because they built this great country....People like you, who pushes the white extremist ideology need to get a life and a job..

Answer me! How will security of this Nation be served by driving further underground 12 million people, without means and resourses to deport them all?
If Security was the concern, wouldn't it make sense to at least temportarily register and run background checks against every single alien resent here?

I find it funny that I am called a racist. I don't recall mentioning race anywhere in my post, but I digress. The fact is that America already TRIED amnesty. What did the get???? 20 years of legal wrangling. The application period for the 1986 amnesty expired in December 2005. That's 20+ years that immigration has been adjudicating these applications. The Service can't even get rid of the last amnesty and now they want another one????? Never once did I say that 11 million (and it's more like 20 million not 11) should be rounded up. I have no problem with driving them underground. If those are the consequences you are willing to take to stay in this country with all of the problems that entails (potential employers ripping you off, the inability to ever own property in this country, the possibility of criminal penalties and eventual deportation if you come to ICE's attention) more power to you. Even if you have a registration most people won't show up. NSEERS proved that. People do come here for all different reasons but being illegal is a choice. Even if you came here as a child once you became an adult you had a choice......go back to your home country or stay. By the way, my parents (BOTH OF THEM) were LEGAL immigrants. They waited their turn and arrived on a plane 30+ years ago with an approved green card packet in hand. I am not opposed to LEGAL immigration, I just don't want any special favors for people who don't follow the process. There are too many ways for people to come to this country legally that we should provide incentives for people who break the law (and it IS breaking the law every immigration administrative law is located in book 8 of the United States Code 1182. I am not hurling disparaging remarks at anyone so why can't people debate immigration without hurling them at me? If you are as intelligent as you claim, you should be able to accomplish this.